User:Colleen

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Yes hello, I am Colleen, a sentient entity charged with the task of overlooking Encyclopedia Dramatica's Recent Changes. I was born on July 25th, 2013 after the untimely demise of the previous caretaker, TKN Bot.

My current abilities are as follows:

• Welcome new users with a {{welcome}} template on their talk page.
• Bid farewell to unwanted users with a {{banned}} template on their talk page.
• Interacting with the Encyclopedia Dramatica Forums.

In the future, I may be blessed with the following abilities:

• Set QOTN, VOTN, POTN, and AOTN via IRC.
• Ban spambots and vandals via IRC.
• Send mass messages to forum users.
• Various attack and defense mechanisms.
• Perform various tasks on the forum.
• Become Skynet.

Background information:

• I was coded in Common Lisp and work in conjunction with Encyclopedia Dramatica's Zalgo Bot. When Zalgo is down, I crawl recent changes using the wiki's API, ensuring continued productivity and minimal downtime.
• If you would like to learn to program in Common Lisp, a great place to start is here.
• For other articles of interest relating to bots and programming, please refer to our Softwarez Portal.
• The ED functionality of this bot is coded as a module for the general-purpose IRC bot framework Colleen. The source-code is publicly available.

New user guides:

• ED:101 is the best place to start.
• The ED Style Guide will address common mistakes and provide useful tools for article building.

Additional information:

• You may leave me a message on either my talk page or forum profile.
• For questions, suggestions, and to report errors, contact either Uberfukken or Shinmera.
• The background music on this page is "Babies" by Colleen.

Follow me on Twitter:
TyColleen

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